Flat Shooting Gun
60/40 at 16 yards is much higher at 60 yards! 50/50 is 50/50 at all distances! 60/40 is great at skeet, but the average distance a skeet target is shot is 14-and-a-half yards. And a high shooting gun is great for trap, but all targets are...
The Game has Changed
I began my sporting career with a gun that shot 70/30 that I designed. It later became the Browning Special Sporting (crossover) and Lightning Sporting with a flat rib. But targets were rising or were flat and a long target was 30 yards! The game has changed...
Gun Fit and Cheek Pressure
We have learned a lot about gun fit and cheek pressure over the past 25 years as professional coaches, the previous 17 years as competitive skeet shooters, and then as sporting clays competitors since 1983. We also have heard the theories about the iris sitting on...
Coaching Hour – How Not to Self-Evaluate During Shooting – Oct 2017
Coaching Hour – Oct 2017 - EXCERPT Evaluation is a performance killer, plain and simple. Accessing skill from your long-term memory is crucial to becoming a better shotgun shooter, whether you’re a beginner or in master class. In this excerpt from the October 2017 Coaching Hour,...
Deliberate Practice
The Coaching Hour is tonight and we will be beginning a discussion on “deliberate practice” and its effect on higher levels of performance. Last month we began this discussion and instead of an hour, it went an hour and a half. We expect tonight to be...
NSSF Shares OSP Tips on Social Media
We are just back from the National Shooting Sports Foundation where Brian, Vicki, and I did some tips that NSSF will be putting up on all mediums - Facebook, Twitter, etc. Some of them were the longer tips like I have done in the past, but...
Coaching Hour in Knowledge Vault
Perhaps the most overlooked section of the Knowledge Vault is Coaching Hours! We have been doing a one-hour conference call every month since November 2001 and they are all in the section. First, listen to or read March 2015 to understand what skill is and how...
Pennsylvania to Houston to Connecticut
We’re on to Lehigh Valley Sporting Clays and had another great three days of learning with a lot of new folks and several of our repeat offenders. Lehigh is in an old limestone quarry and has a lot of different presentations. They have three different courses,...
Bye-Bye, Harvey – Hello, St. Louis!
Harvey is gone and left the Houston area devastated with homes underwater and lives destroyed. But we will return as a better city. The one thing that everyone shared with us from all over the country during the past couple of weeks is how Houstonians were...
Patterning Your Shotgun and Having a Quiet Eye
On our most recent Coaching Hour, we talked about patterning your shotgun first to make sure that the barrels are regulated correctly and then for the point of impact. We also talked about Hurricane Harvey and how we are doing, as well as having a...